Micro-credential: Microbial Genomics: Bioinformatic Analysis Basics

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.

Microbial genomics is revolutionising clinical and public health responses to communicable diseases. Advances in bioinformatics are enabling precise, real-time responses to pathogen outbreaks.

This micro-credential is ideal for infectious diseases professionals seeking a strong grounding in bioinformatics concepts and practical experience investigating microbial sequence data.

Understand quality control theory

Understand the importance of sequence data quality control and its impact on data analysis and interpretation in microbial genomics.

Explore fundamental bioinformatics theory

Gain a high-level understanding of bioinformatics theory, including the concepts of genome assembly, annotation, genome characterisation, mapping variant calling, and phylogenetics.

Gain practical experience in bioinformatics analysis

Analyse sequence data in the online genomics platform, Galaxy. Develop skills to critically assess which analysis approach and bioinformatics tools to use in different scenarios.

Apply bioinformatics to interrogate data from real-world case studies

Combine your new theoretical and practical knowledge to assess data and address questions arising from real-world case studies.

This course runs over four weeks, including self-directed learning, guided learning, and two weeks to complete assessment tasks.

Your total time commitment is approximately 40 hours, which includes:

• 2 live session webinars
• 4 module drop-in sessions
• 2 assessment task drop in sessions
• 4 hours self-directed learning
• 16 hours assessment tasks

• Application of bioinformatic analysis approaches to diverse scenarios (40%)
• Independent analysis of pathogen genomic data (60%)